From David Archer, [email protected]

If more than one lot is bought, and we can combine them in a single parcel, any saving in carriage charges will be passed to the customer.

Where individual maps are listed, the Hellyer number from Map Cover Art is given if possible, e.g. H 96.5. See final item of this list.

Collection of Archaeological maps 10 maps in generally good clean condition, except for both Monastic Britain sheets, which have slightly dusty covers, and Ancient Britain north 1951 and Roman Britain which have dusty and chipped covers.

• Ancient Britain, North 1951 H 179 • Ancient Britain, North 1964 H 180 • Ancient Britain, South 1951 H 179 • Ancient Britain, South 1964 H 179.2 • Hadrian's Wall 1964 H 182 • Londinium 1981 404.1.a • Monastic Britain, South 1950 H 175 • Monastic Britain, South, 2nd ed 1954 H 175 • Roman Britain, 3rd ed 1956 H 84 • Southern Britain in the Iron Age 1962 H 181 Minor changes 1967 £32 including carriage.

Scotland one-inch : First Edition, 1856-94 47 sheets, being a mixture of contoured or hachured versions, black and white, dissected in covers, but with top and sides margins trimmed, usually with blind stamps dates noted if removed. 11 sheets have contemporary hand colouring. Generally clean condition, some dusty whilst a few sheets have annotations.

Sheet numbers : 5, 17, 21, 23, 24, 24 composite centred on Carstairs, 25, parts 25 and 17, 31, 33, 27, 38 x 2, 39 x 2, 44, 45, 48, 49, 53, 54, 55 x 2, 62, 64, 65, 72, 73 x 2, 74, 83 x 3, 84 x 2, 89, 93 x 3, 94 x 2, 95, 101, 102 x 2, 105, 108, 113. Duplicates are usually different states.

Note : Sheet 25 is an early sheet with incomplete detail. Photographs emailed if requested. £160, including carriage.

Scotland one-inch : Second Edition, 1896-1903 68 sheets, being 9 dissected and 59 cloth backed with a single vertical centre fold. Black and white, all with the top and side margins trimmed to some extent. Overall, the condition is very nice, with many sheets being bright and clean, showing virtually no use. Some sheets are a little dusty in places. No annotations have been noted. One sheet has contemporary hand colouring.

Sheets offered are essentially a block north of Kingussie / Stonehaven, including the Western Isles, but excluding the Orkney and Shetland Islands.

Sheet numbers : 9, 10, 15, 32, 38, 40, 48, 58-82, 84-116, 126, with duplicates for sheets 85 and 89 as different states.

Also included is a sheet from the Royal Commission (Highlands and Islands, 1892) with partial colouring.

Photographs emailed if requested. £290, including carriage.

Scotland one-inch 56 sheets from various early editions. Neat, sturdy amateur dissected maps with margins trimmed to borders or with sea area removed as well, thus presenting a challenge to easily identify the series in hand, but most appear to be from the Third Edition, 1902-12, with others from the Second Edition, 1896-1903. Generally good clean condition, with dusty outer folded surfaces. A few sheets have certainly been more used than others, though none are tatty.

Sheet numbers : 1-10, 14-18, 21-25, 26 + 34 mounted together, 28-33, 36-40, 38 x 2, 44-49, 52-57/57A, 61-67, 75-77.

Photographs emailed if requested. £60, including carriage.

Pre-1945 tourist and district maps Group 1. 8 maps in good clean condition. • Brighton, H50. • , H67, relief style. • Exmoor, H45. • Lake District, H37. • , H34, relief style. • Sidmouth, H8.1.a.1. • Snowdon, H32, relief style. • Trossachs, H39. £28, including carriage.

Group 2. 8 maps in good clean bright condition. • Brighton, H50. • Cambridge, H10.2. • Cambridge O.T.C., H7.1.b. • Dartmoor, H48. • Forest of Bowland, H30. • Hastings, H30. • Lake District, H37. • New Forest, H34. £37, including carriage.

Group 3. 8 maps in in good clean bright condition. • Aldershot South, H11.1.a. • Cambridge O.T.C., H7.1.b. • Cheltenham, H53. • Chichester, H54. • Dartmoor, H48. • London North, H7.1.a. • Middle Thames, H55. Benderfold. • New Forest, H34. £37, including carriage.

Quarter-inch map of Ireland : First Edition, 1904-05 Set of 16 sheets, lacking sheets 2, 3, and 4. All cloth backed, in white Ordnance Survey covers, H 3.2.b.1; sheet 7 H7.1.b; sheet 16 red H3.2.a.1, whilst sheets 12 and 13 have Ordnance Survey of Ireland cover labels pasted over white covers. Good, clean used condition, possibly with minor faults such as some foxing or rubbing, to folds, not excessive. £65, carriage paid. Bundle of three standard reference works on the Ordnance Survey. Map cover art : a pictorial history of Ordnance Survey cover illustrations. John Paddy Browne. Very popular with everyone. 144pp illus. bibliog. 1991. Bright clean copy.

Ordnance Survey maps : a descriptive manual, by Brian Harley. All large and small scale maps available in 1975 are described. A wealth of historical and technical information. A standard reference work. 200pp 40 plates illus. bibliog. 1975. In original box. Excellent condition, other than page edges of closed book are discoloured, not visible on open pages.

A history of the Ordnance Survey, edited by W.A. Seymour. A scholarly history, with sections written by leading authorities of the day. A standard reference work. 394pp 27 plates. 1980. Good clean copy in slightly scuffed and repaired dustwrapper. £50, for three books, carriage paid.

Note : Half-inch and Fifth Edition maps, minimum order three maps from any section, pick and mix.

Half-inch to one mile Please ask for sheet number and style : layered, hill shaded or layered and hill shaded.

England and Wales, Large Sheet Series 1. Layered or hill shaded, in standard green and buff, large and small covers, H 12.2 a and b. A few in white covers H 4 or H 7. Most sheets, numbers 1 to 40 available in good clean condition or better. £5 per map. Carriage paid.

2. Layered and hill shaded, in white covers, H 4 or H 7. In good clean condition, all sheets except 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 20, 39. £6 per map. Carriage paid.

Scotland 1. Layered or hill shaded in standard green and buff, large and small covers, H 12.2 a and b. Some in white covers H 4 or H 7. Sheets 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, and 34 available in good clean condition or better. £5 per map. Carriage paid.

One-inch Fifth Edition Nice bright copies, folded in blue covers H 23.2. Mostly cloth backed, some bender fold and a few book style covers. Please note : some sheets offered have fewer than five copies available. Sheets available : 95, 106, 107, 108, 113, 114, 115, 118, 119, 123, 125, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 143, 144, 145, 146. £6 per map. Carriage paid.

One-inch Seventh Series Note : I have not opened every map to check the condition, but would have done so when I bought them. 1. 84 sheets within the range 71-189, mostly late printings in the all red laminated covers. Good clean condition. 84 maps, £62 including carriage.

2. 39 sheets within the range 46-189, various dates and covers. Clean with slightly more signs of use that group 1. 39 maps, £31 including carriage.

3. 12 sheets, numbers 101, 125, 132, 133, 135, 136, 148, 149, 151, 157, 171, 172. All except one are 'A' printings, in the small red and cream covers H 99.1, being 8 cloth backed and 4 paper folded. Sheets 101 and 171 have scruffy covers and the maps are more used than the others, which are in good clean condition, with three being ever so slightly faded. 12 maps, £22 including carriage.

Channel Islands collection 16 maps in different covers. The maps are in good clean condition. The covers are in good condition, some more used than others, being slightly scuffed or dusty. • Alderney, 1988, H 168 • Guernsey, 1934, H 96.4 • Guernsey, 1934, H 96.4, GR crest • Guernsey, 1958, H 96.5 • , 1933, H 8.1.b • Isles of Scilly, 1933, H 8.1.b • Isles of Scilly, 1933, H 96.2.b.2 • Isles of Scilly, 1964, A, H 109.1 • Isles of Scilly, 1964, minor changes 1969, A/, H 109.2 • Isles of Scilly, 1964, minor changes, A//, H 132.5 • Isles of Scilly, 1982, A, H 163 • Isles of Scilly, 1988, AI, photograph • Jersey, 1914, revised and reprinted 1933, 96.4, GR crest • Jersey, 1914, revise and reprinted ?? 96.4 • Jersey, 1988, A, H167 • Jersey, 1958, B.K.S. Air Survey Ltd cover £50 including carriage.

WW2 German town plans of and Wales from Operation Sea Lion In preparing for the invasion of Great Britain (Operation Sea Lion), a vast amount of information, including maps and photographs, was assembled by the German military. This included enlarging Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of important towns to 1:10,000, and overprinting the new brown base map with coloured symbols showing sites of military significance such as airports, railway workshops, docks, bridges. Sheet size is usually 18.5″ by 12.5 inches, with larger combined sheets showing some towns on a single sheet. Folded to roughly A4 size.

Our stock is illustrated on our website, where we are offering a 40% discount to members for a limited period. Carriage paid. https://david-archer-maps.co.uk/military-maps/operation-sea-lion/town-plans/

Our Publications Buy one and get any of the others at half our website price. Highest priced will be full price. This offer includes Map cover art. https://david-archer-maps.co.uk/our-publications/ https://david-archer-maps.co.uk/ordnance-survey-books/

1. Catalogue of maps and other publications of the Ordnance Survey, 1924. 2. History in the Ordnance map : an introduction for Irish readers, by J.H. Andrews. Second edition. 3. Indexes to the 1/2500 and 6-inch scale maps : England and Wales. 4. Indexes to the 1/2500 and 6-inch scale maps : Scotland. 5. Ordnance Survey small-scale maps : indexes 1801-1998 by Roger Hellyer. 6. A résumé of the publications of the Ordnance and Geological Surveys of England and Wales…September 1909. Edward Stanford. And 7. Map cover art : a pictorial history of Ordnance Survey cover illustrations, by John Paddy Browne.

Ordnance Survey descriptions of Large, Medium and Small scale maps. A 'set' of the thirteen known printings of post-war descriptions, in very good condition, 4 x Large scale, 5 x Medium scale, 4 x Small scale. Plus four pre-war examples in clean condition, with very minor faults, Large scale 4th and 5th editions, Small scale 7th and 8th editions. Illustrated on pages 46 and 67 of Map cover art. £26 including carriage. Heavy.

– Another set of post war descriptions in good clean condition, plus pre-war Large scale 4th edition, and Small scale 7th edition, in clean condition. £21 including carriage. Heavy.

Map Reading Books 1. A collection of 31 books, all different, mostly post 1945. Several copies each of Cox and Pickles having different Ordnance Survey map extracts. £22 including carriage. Very heavy.

2. A collection of 10 books, all different, including three military examples pre- 1916. Generally good clean condition. £16 including carriage. Heavy.

War Office – Manual of map reading, air photo reading and field sketching. In three volumes, 1955-58. Plus, Notes on map reading, 1929 (Reprinted with amendments (Nos. 1 to 4) 1939). Plus, Manual of map reading, photo reading and field sketching, 1929 (Reprinted with amendments (Nos. 1 to 4) 1939). All in good clean condition. Five books £19 including carriage.